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- Ahmed Musa has continued to people important goals for Kano Pillars successful the Nigeria Premier Football League
- The Super Eagles skipper grabbed a brace arsenic Sai Masu Gida defeated Shooting Stars 3-1 astatine the Sani Abacha Stadium
- Musa, who has not been portion of the nationalist squad set-up aft AFCON 2023, is expected to instrumentality for the upcoming Unity Cup
Nigerian planetary Ahmed Musa grabbed a brace successful Kano Pillars' 3-1 triumph implicit Shooting Stars successful a Nigeria Premier Football League fixture connected Sunday, May 11.
The skipper sent the packed Sani Abacha Stadium into the wilds arsenic Sai Masu Gida secured a captious triumph to bolster their campaign.
The Super Eagles' skipper opened the scoring with a objective decorativeness successful the 49th minute, erstwhile helium tucked location from wrong the area.
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Otakho Alexander Aghahowa restored parity for the Oluyole Warriors successful the 58th, silencing the location fans.
Three minutes later, Pillars were backmost successful beforehand aft Naziru Auwalu recovered the backmost of the nett from the punishment spot.
With hardly 5 minutes near connected the clock, Musa completed his brace erstwhile helium ran into abstraction earlier lobbing the shot implicit the goalkeeper to marque it 3-1, per Score Nigeria.
The brace elevated the guardant to 10 goals successful the 2024-2025 NPFL play arsenic helium acceptable sights connected a Super Eagles return.
Top scorers successful NPFL - 2024/2025 season
- Anas Yusuf (Nasarawa United) – 18 goals
- Rabiu Ali (Kano Pillars) – 12 goals
- Anthony De Souza Ijoma (Abia Warriors) – 12 goals
- Sunday Megwo (Abia Warriors) – 12 goals
- Shola Adelani (Ikorodu City) – 12 goals
- Ahmed Musa (Kano Pillars) 10 goals
- Ayomide Cole (Ikorodu City) – 9 goals
- Ossy Martins (Lobi Stars) – 8 goals
- Kayode Oke (Bendel Insurance) – 8 goals
- Isaac Saviour (Enugu Rangers) – 8 goals
- Rabiu Abdullahi (Bayelsa United) – 8 goals
- Amadu Liman (Lobi Stars/Sunshine Stars) – 7 goals
Musa acceptable for nationalist squad return
Meanwhile, Musa is expected to instrumentality to the nationalist squad erstwhile the Super Eagles play successful the upcoming Unity Cup successful London, Afrik Foot reports.
The Nigeria Football Federation precocious confirmed that the nationalist squad volition enactment successful the four-nation invitational tourney scheduled for May 27 – 31, 2025.
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Nigeria, Ghana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago volition enactment successful the tournament, which is slated for Brentford's Gtech Community Stadium, Punch reports.
It was organised to observe Afro-Caribbean shot and taste heritage. The Super Eagles volition look rivals Ghana successful a semi-final connected May 28, dubbed the “Jollof Derby”.
Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago volition footwear disconnected the contention connected May 27. The last and third-place playoff volition instrumentality spot connected May 31.
NPFL stars to predominate Super Eagles squad for Unity Cup
Legit.ng earlier reported that Super Eagles adjunct manager Daniel Ogunmodede has disclosed that immoderate players successful the section league volition enactment successful the Unity Cup.
Head manager Eric Chelle is actively scouting endowment to bolster the squad for the tournament, amid reports that the tactician is focusing connected home players.
Ogunmodede stated that the thought volition let the method unit to trial caller faces up of the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.
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